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Douce Atlas (nautical atlas) 16th century. Piri Reis Map (Ottoman Empire, 1513) Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Ortelius, Flanders, 1570–1612) Mercator's Atlas (1578) 17th century. Atlas Novus (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658; 1645 edition at UCLA) Dell'Arcano del Mare (England/Italy, 1645–1661) Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde ...
The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 14: Atlas (1970) Haywood, John. Atlas of world history (1997) online free; Kinder, Hermann and Werner Hilgemann. Anchor Atlas of World History (2 vol. 1978); advanced analytical maps, mostly of Europe; O'Brian, Patrick. Atlas of World History (2010). excerpt; Rand McNally. Historical atlas of the world ...
In a review of a new edition of the Oxford Atlas of World History, which aimed to offer a more global and less North American and European perspective, Kimberly C. Kowal felt that the Oxford atlas was less successful in this objective than both the DK Atlas of World History and The Complete Atlas of World History. [8]
The best-known text associated with his print shop was the flawed first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, printed by Oxford at the expense of its author Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1865. [21] It took the 1850 Royal Commission on the workings of the university and a new Secretary, Bartholomew Price, to shake up the ...
Klencke Atlas (1660; one of the world's largest books) Britannia (1675), John Ogilby (1600–1676), first to be printed at a specific scale (1:63,360 or one inch to one mile; 18th century. Atlas Nouveau (Amsterdam, 1742) Britannia Depicta (London, 1720) Cary's New and Correct English Atlas (London, 1787) 19th century:
The Times Atlas of World History is a historical atlas first published by Times Books Limited, then a subsidiary of Times Newspapers Ltd and later a branch of Collins Bartholomew, which is a subsidiary of HarperCollins, and which in the latest editions has changed names to become The Times Complete History of the World. The first two editions ...
The atlas project took much longer than anticipated, entailing numerous research grants, and requiring roughly 85 person-years of work from a multi-disciplinary team of specialists. First published by the University of Chicago Press in 1978, the work was reissued in an updated edition by the Oxford University Press in 1992, and in a digitized ...
Oxford School may refer to: Oxford Franciscan school, 12th century philosophical movement that include Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus and William of Ockham; Ecole Oxford School, Halifax, Canada; Oxford Community School, England, United Kingdom; Oxford Spires Academy, England, United Kingdom; Oxford Schools, Amman, Jordan